With Emma meeting the Nicolettis having gone well, Charlie accepts an invitation from Emma for him to attend a Hill event where he will meet her family. That meeting doesn't go quite the way that Emma in particular envisions. That event for David's campaign shows him the literal face of an arrangement Joseph warns him against. A few what were secrets between Charlie and Emma necessarily come to light, Charlie in particular having to decide what it will mean for their relationship. And getting tired of Daphne's infringement on their lives, Charlie negotiates a one-time only $10 million payment with her to end their arrangement for good rather than what have been up to this point the relatively minuscule individual payments. Daphne's agreement is due to Connor's arrival into town. That money Charlie foresees as coming from a con he and Birdie had previously decided was too dangerous for them on which to embark in seeing no route of escape. It is a robbery on private yacht in international waters, the yacht on which a high stakes poker game run by Robert Renway will be held. Beyond coming to workable solutions to the problem areas of the plan, Birdie is concerned that they have to put up all the money they have from their previous scam for this scam to work.
—Huggo